"It's as if the fasion designers decided that once a woman hit a certain weight, she'd have no need for business suits, for skirts and blazers, for anything except glorified sweatsuits, and they tried to apologize for dressing us like overaged Teletubbies by silk-screening daisies on the tops."

-- Jennifer Weiner

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“Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.”
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.”
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

Source : The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)
“Acceptance and awareness are the keys to freedom.”
“The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.”
“As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.”
“Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.”
“One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.”

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